Two House Representatives are creating a NASA reform bill in an effort to help the agency with funding and long-term projects.

Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) have joined forces to propose the new NASA reform bill. The bill aims to help NASA budget its funding over longer periods of time and also eliminate the politics that affect long-term projects.

Money is a huge factor in determining what NASA can and cannot do. Last October, the space agency urged Congress to provide $850 million in full for commercial crew vehicle development after NASA's space shuttle fleet was retired. This was necessary so that the U.S. wouldn't have to depend on Russia for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS), which is expected to increase to about $63 million per set by 2015.

The new bill wants to place funding on a multi-year cycle rather than just an annual cycle. This will allow NASA to budget its funding over a longer period of time, rather than have to beg for more money each year in order to finish a project. NASA will know exactly how much it has ahead of time, and will be able to allot the total amount more efficiently.

Aside from money, politics has become an issue for NASA. The Obama administration ended the Constellation Program rather quickly after $10 billion had already been spent on what was meant to put the U.S. back into space after the retirement of the space shuttle fleet.

The reform bill's attempt to not only create a fixed, long-term budget, but also appoint a NASA administrator to a 10-year term, will make NASA a well-oiled machine for a longer period of time and help progress the U.S.' space program without any intrusion from politics or begging to Congress.

To me it is not the amounts spent on any one things, it is the abundance of cancelled projects that have massive amounts of money spent on them. That is part of the point of this bill with NASA. Should we do something for the military's spending too? I believe so, probably not the same thing, but something to help prevent so many canceled projects. For NASA that was a big problem. Recent Presidential Administrations were coming in and canceling their predecessor's projects and enacting their own. That is just bad spending. Unfortunately our whole government is that way.